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Topic: Your scariest ambient track (Read 6635 times)

Mine would have to be Yoga- Part 1 from Necrophorus- Gathering Composed Thoughts. I'm not positive that's the name of the track, because I haven't heard it in years. Not only is it scary, but it's disgusting. It seems that Peter Andersson taped the sounds of his dog snoring, amplified and warped it and added sound effects, to the point that it sounds like a raving and drooling demon breathing down your neck. Eeewwww! I have to admire his skill in creating such a terrifying sound, but it's so repulsive that after my initial fascination of hearing it two or three times, I never wanted to hear it again. Which is probably just what he intended. Brrrr...

quite a few years, maybe 4 or so ago on this forum, there was an artist who posted a free download that featured these loops of really strange, manipulated voices, over and over again. It was like a really bad dream. For the life of me I can't remember who the person was or what it was called. Wish I had more in the way of a hint, but the effect of the track was creepy. Maybe someone with the vaguest idea of that could chime in, but I just can't remember.

Lustmord's The Place Where the Black Stars Hang is a terrific album, but it's definitely one of the darkest slabs of primordial ambient ever made. Rather than depict a warm, flowing swash of peaceful contemplation, Place shows us a dark forbidding vacuum where no one can hear you scream, nor would they care if they could. A chilling journey with no promise of salvation or redemption. Love it when the mood is right. As Khan says, "It is very cooold....in spaaaace."

There is a point towards the beginning of Irrlicht, by Kalus Schulze, where the sounds build in intensity that if I am not totally relaxed I have to turn it off - not scary in the sense of evil or someone out to get me - but in the sense of feeling a heart attack coming on. One of my favourite albums.

Throbbing Gristle managed to hit the scary place for me, mainly for the way they matched sounds to subject matter, when I was younger. There seemed to be bands that followed them that somehow glorified the murky side of human nature which I found more unsettling than the music itself.....

quite a few years, maybe 4 or so ago on this forum, there was an artist who posted a free download that featured these loops of really strange, manipulated voices, over and over again. It was like a really bad dream. For the life of me I can't remember who the person was or what it was called. Wish I had more in the way of a hint, but the effect of the track was creepy. Maybe someone with the vaguest idea of that could chime in, but I just can't remember.

Judd, are you sure that wasn't a shortwave numbers station off of the Conet Project? For creepy use of voices, I'd have to go with early Hafler Trio (Bang (An Open Letter) or Seven Hours Sleep).

For just general creepiness in an ambient vein, my pick would be Laszlo Hortobagyi's Traditional Music of Amygdala.

About Place Where The Black Stars Hang: I listened to it in bed with headphones one time and found parts of it very relaxing in a special kind of way, especially the fantastic track Metastatic Resonance. Personally I don't think it's a scary or creepy album.

About Place Where The Black Stars Hang: I listened to it in bed with headphones one time and found parts of it very relaxing in a special kind of way, especially the fantastic track Metastatic Resonance. Personally I don't think it's a scary or creepy album.

Agreed. I would nominate Zoetrope as Lustmord's scariest album. Some very eerie, bleak stuff on that one.